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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mechascorpio" data-source="post: 6371210" data-attributes="member: 68644">FINALLY, I can talk about DU 103071 !!!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />As Hobo the Delightful mentioned, I was one of those at Origins who got the coin and, shortly after, figured out that there must be some hidden meaning to the code. I contacted Rachael after the con, and she confirmed that the code was not unique to each coin, that all of the Origins coins had that code, and that it had a purpose (which she explained in the video) but it also had a secret meaning, apparently known only to Evil Chris Matney. But because it was technically part of the NDA in my playtest of C:M, and I wasn't sure if a further clue/code might be revealed at GenCon, we agreed to say nothing public at the time. Now that the cat is out of the bag, I'll share some guesses I've made and some clarifications I got, and perhaps we can work it out together. None of my guesses have nailed it when she ran them by Chris:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">DUngeon Magazine #10, page 30, word 71? No.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Passage to Dawn", the 10th book of Drizzt Do'Urden (DU), page 30, word 71? No.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Something else to do with Drizzt, a 10th Level Ranger? No answer.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Something to do with Chris at University of Denver (DU)? No. Chris says that the code can be broken with public information and has nothing to do with him personally.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Something to do with Dave Arneson possibly having watched "The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle" and during a Creature Feature marathon on October 30, 1971 in St Paul, partly inspiring Blackmoor? No.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Does Chris have an original first printing of "Chainmail" in his collection, that also had the original receipt tucked in it, indicating it was bought by someone with the initials DU on Oct 30, 1971? No. Chris does have a copy of the original Chainmail but the receipt is long gone.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Has anyone else from Origins asked about it (as of the end of June)? No.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Will similar coins be going out at GenCon? They want to keep the coin theme running, but it would likely be a different code/badge.</li> </ul>I wasn't at GenCon, and Hobo says in the video that the swag didn't make it, but participants would receive something in the mail from Trapdoor. Anyone get anything yet? Another coin with a new code?Based on Chris' offscreen comments in the video, I think I've been thinking about this way too hard, and it's something much more obvious and simple than the kind of guesses I made above.</blockquote>

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